Developing into a sentient though permanently child-sized life form, she was adopted by Black Jack as his informal ward. Her face and body, though artificial, are remarkably human in design. Her body is fully capable of walking, running, breathing and consuming/digesting food. Miraculously, the homunculus survived with all sensory reception intact. Using life support to maintain them, Black Jack encased the assembly in an artificially constructed exoskeleton sized and shaped in the form of a female human child (around 7 or 8 years). In the end, he found the cystoma, although a collection of uncontained organs and muscles, was complete in design if not form. When the presence of the twin was evidenced from a grotesque distortion in the host's body, Black Jack was contracted to extract and dispose of the growth. As seen in Volume 1 Chapter 3: 'Teratogenous Cystoma', she was a rare type of parasitic twin, living as part of a patients' body for eighteen years. Pinoko is Black Jack's loyal assistant/adopted daughter, who was actually a Teratogenous Cystoma (a growth more commonly known as a teratoma). First Appearance: Volume 1 Chapter 3: 'Teratogenous Cystoma'.First Appearance: Volume 1 Chapter 1: 'Is there a Doctor?'.Main article: Black Jack (manga character) They sometimes end with a good, humane person enduring hardship, often unavoidable death, to save others. Most of the stories involve Black Jack doing some good deed, for which he rarely gets recognition-often curing the poor and destitute for free, or teaching the arrogant a lesson in humility. Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack: The Movie, won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards. It has since then became Tezuka's second best selling manga with over 50 million copies sold only in Japan. In 1977, it won the first Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.

Black Jack has also been animated into an OVA, two television series (directed by Satoshi Kuwahara and Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka) and two films.īlack Jack is Tezuka's second most famous manga, after Astro Boy. Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained stories that are typically about 20 pages long.

Black Jack ( Japanese: ブラック・ジャック, Hepburn: Burakku Jakku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the title character, doctor Black Jack.

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